Mike Fossum

London is installing 80 new wifi hotspots in its subway system, and some of the stations in the Underground that will be connected have been announced. Transport for London has named King’s Cross, Leicester Square, Liverpool Street, Oxford Circus and …

On May 30th Cisco Systems filed a federal lawsuit in California against TiVo, over four patents related to DVRs. Cisco supplies TiVo-based DVR boxes to Virgin Media in the UK and Spanish cable operator Ono. TiVo likewise suing Verizon Communications …

Men’s Health Magazine has just released an update for its app for iOS. The magazine has now adapted its app to iPhone, users can post articles to Twitter, issues have been optimized for the iPad’s retina display and a few …

It was recently reported that the U.S. federal government is suing Apple and book publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, on the assumption that they’d worked together to raise the prices of e-books. Three of the merchants …

Independent website analytics company StatCounter has just reported that Google Chrome has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the most popular browser online, for the first time over the span of an entire calendar month. Chrome first exceeded IE for one …

It’s been reported that both Google and Facebook have been competing over a possible larger investment in music video platform Vevo. CEO Rio Caraeff stated earlier in the year that the platform was focused on expansion, and funds from the …

It was recently reported that the jury in the Android/Java patent infringement case sided with Google, and now presided Judge William Alsup has ruled that Oracle’s Java API elements are not copyrightable, and dismissed the claim against the search giant. …

Amazon, who is planning to install two new distribution centers in New Jersey, which would create 1,500 new jobs, is now going to be charging sales tax in that state in July, 2013. Amazon has had issues with taxes in …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) system for submitting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) just closed, after over 1900 applications were submitted. Google had submitted its own applications for new TLDs, falling into four categories: …

It was recently reported that the iPhone beat out Sony in the camera market for the first time, as more and more users are plainly taking pictures with their mobile devices, rather than investing in a standard camera. And cameras …

It was recently reported that an RIAA lawsuit against LimeWire, seeking $72 trillion in damages, was shot down. A new study has revealed that more than half of all computer users had committed some form of content piracy, which leads …

Facebook has just added a new functionality that had been previously available in third-party development tools such as Post Planner and Buffer, which allows users to schedule their posts in advance. Ever since the social network’s IPO, numerous protocols and …

Menlo Park leaders officially have approved Facebook’s expansion of its headquarters in that town, which will allow the search giant to hire up to 6,600 new workers. Good news, considering that Facebook’s botched IPO put the company in the habit …

It was recently reported that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) system for submitting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) was finally set to be reopened on May 22, and COO Akram Atallah has announced the …

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New York startup Fancy, an online catalog and high-end Pinterest competitor, today announced that it’s hit 1 million users, presently sees an average of $50,000 worth of commerce move through its platform weekly, and has updated its iOS app. Fancy …

PayPal had recently announced on its blog that it’s outfitting 15 new U.S. brick and mortar retailers to use its offline payment and shopping solutions. The stores include Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Aéropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Barnes & …

Mary Meeker has just released her annual Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers report of internet trends. The document is typically massive, and comes in at 112 pages this year. KPCB partner Meeker, a venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities …

It was reported yesterday the Facebook acquired Israeli facial recognition app Face.com for roughly $100 million. The app is assumed to be capable of inadvertently bolstering higher mobile ad revenues by keeping better tabs on the social network’s book of …

Back in February, video rental service Netflix paid a hefty fine for violating the Video Privacy Protection Act, by keeping rental logs on all of its users who cancelled their subscriptions. Netflix asserted that they kept the records just in …

It was recently reported that YouTube has hit 72 hours of video content uploaded per minute, in a steady ascent since its inception in 2005. By 2007, users were adding six hours of video per minute – by January of …

URL-shortening platform Bitly launched a redesign yesterday, sporting all sorts of new features. Bitly users can now: – Easily save, share and discover links — they’re called bitmarks, like bookmarks. – Instantly search your saved bitmarks. – Curate groups of …

Online security firm Impermium has just reported that up to 40% of all social media accounts are created by spammers, and this number has doubled over the last six months. Spammers exploit the sharing features on social networks to spread …

It was recently reported that URL shortening platform bitly has just raised $20 million in a round of funding, roughly double it garnered last time around. Bitly had been the default URL shortener on Twitter since 2009, replacing TinyURL, until …